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http://login.fisbookclub.ie/Home/Index
Added:19 Jan 2015
Contributor: Scoilnet
Resource type: Audio / Video, Project, Reference
Repository of video book reviews and resources aimed at promoting reading to primary school children in Ireland. Bilingual site with teacher registration required.
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English5-6
How it maps to the curriculum
- 5-6
- English
Strand: Oral Language
Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:
This resource should enable a child to:
- discuss ideas, concepts and images encountered in literature
- discuss personal reading and writing
- express individual responses to poems and literature and discuss different interpretations
Suggestions for use: Use to create or consume, i.e., have your class create individual/group based video book reviews or consume by viewing, discussing and rating other pupils' work.
http://www.earlychildhoodireland.ie/christmas-tongue-twisters/
Added:2 Dec 2014
Contributor: Scoilnet
Resource type: Other
A collection of 16 Christmas inspired tongue twisters from the early childhood Ireland website featuring both simple and complex words.
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English3-45-6
How it maps to the curriculum
Strand: Reading
Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:
This resource should enable a child to:
- become an increasingly independent reader
- continue to self-correct reading errors
- identify unfamiliar words by reference to word parts, prefixes and suffixes
Suggestions for use: Divide the class into small groups, distributing a different tongue twister to each group. Allow children time to read it together in their groups and then in front of the class. Distribute a different tongue twister to each group and do same if time permits. Extend the activity by allowing children to create their own tongue twister.
Strand: Reading
Suggestions for use: Present the tongue twister examples on the IWB as a fun stimulus to an activity that requires children to formulate more complex examples and later challenging their peers to read them with precision.
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Christmas/
Added:24 Nov 2014
Contributor: Scoilnet
Resource type: Guide/Notes
Clear guide to the traditions of Christmas - covering the Christmas Story; Advent; Boxing Day; Epiphany; Christmas trees, cards, puddings and carols; and of course Santa Claus.
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SESE History1-23-4
Mathematicsin1-23-4
Englishin1-23-4
How it maps to the curriculum
Strand: Myself & My Family
Strand unit: Feasts & Festivals
Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:
This resource should enable a child to:
- explore and discuss the origins and traditions of some common festivals
- listen to, discuss, explore and record associated stories, legends, games and songs
Suggestions for use: Very good starting point for studying aspects of Christmas. Activities for class also included.
Strand: Local Studies
Strand unit: Feasts & Festivals
Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:
This resource should enable a child to:
- become familiar with the origins and traditions associated with some common festivals in Ireland and other countries
- explore, discuss and record some of the ceremonies, stories, legends, poetry, music, dances and games associated with these feasts and festivals
Suggestions for use: Very good starting point for studying aspects of Christmas. Activities for class also included.
https://www.scoilnet.ie/uploads/resources/12155/11791.pdf
Added:23 Jun 2014
Contributor: Scoilnet
Resource type: Assessment, Guide/Notes, Lesson Plan
Lesson plan and associated activities based on Doreen Cronin's book Click, Clack Moo Cows That Type. Covers 4 stations and includes online and offline activities. Instructions for children may be printed and displayed at each table. A great "print and go" resource.
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English3-4
How it maps to the curriculum
- 3-4
- English
Strand: Reading
Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:
This resource should enable a child to:
- experience different types of text
Suggestions for use: Use as a reference guide for station teaching or as a source of inspiration for ideas on how to teach and integrate the book Click, clack Moo Cows that Type by Doreen Cronin.
https://itunes.apple.com/ie/app/sto...or-easy-story-book/id545369477?mt=8
Added:13 Jun 2014
Contributor: Scoilnet
Resource type: Assessment, Tool
An easy-to-use story creating App that allows you to include your own photos on each page and/or record your own voice for interactive text to speech narration. Suitable for ios devices.
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Englishin1-2
How it maps to the curriculum
Strand: Reading
Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:
This resource should enable a child to:
- build up a sight vocabulary of common words from personal experience, from experience of environmental print, and from books read
Suggestions for use: Use this app to support infants in reading and writing simple sentences and words based on a topic of interest to them.
Strand: Writing
Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:
This resource should enable a child to:
- choose topics for writing after conferring with the teacher
Suggestions for use: Children can choose a topic such as "My Pet" and create a multimedia story or report using images and audio they have produced. Works well as a collaborative activity.
https://itunes.apple.com/ie/app/puppet-pals-hd/id342076546?mt=8
Added:13 Jun 2014
Contributor: Scoilnet
Resource type: Assessment, Tool
App that lets you create your own interactive and animated stories with audio. Choose various characters, backgrounds and other props. Requires iOS 6.1 or later.
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English1-2
How it maps to the curriculum
- 1-2
- English
Strand: Writing
Strand unit: Developing Cognitive Ability through Language
Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:
This resource should enable a child to:
- write the significant details about an event or an activity
Suggestions for use: Connect the device with the App on it to the IWB so that the writing process and use of audio/photographs may be modelled by the teacher. Allow children to write collaboratively or in groups on a topic of their choice or based on a story they have read in class.
https://www.scoilnet.ie/uploads/resources/12128/11764.docx
Added:12 Jun 2014
Contributor: Sharon Mc Donald
Resource type: Lesson Plan
Covers 3 station based activities on the theme Going to the Dentist that involves video role play and narration. Lesson plan includes a guide to resources needed, assessment, differentiation and extension activities.
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Englishin
How it maps to the curriculum
- in
- English
Strand: Oral Language
Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:
This resource should enable a child to:
- choose appropriate words to name and describe things and events
Suggestions for use: Use as a point of reference for planning, resourcing, assessing and implementing an Aistear play area on the theme of Going to the Dentist.
http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-school/ebook-collection
Added:9 Jun 2014
Contributor: Roy Mitchell
Resource type: Audio / Video, Textbook
A collection of eBooks from Oxford Owl. Free sign up. Children/ teachers can read/ listen to books from their own age categories.
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Englishin1-23-45-6
How it maps to the curriculum
Strand: Reading
Suggestions for use: This resource can be used on the IWB, by children individually, in pairs or groups. We've used it in listening stations in our Literacy Hour to great effect. The children can read the stories themselves or listen and read along. It's free to sign up and might be a good idea for a school to sign up with one account.
Strand: Reading
Suggestions for use: This resource can be used on the IWB, by children individually, in pairs or groups. We've used it in listening stations in our Literacy Hour to great effect. The children can read the stories themselves or listen and read along. It's free to sign up and might be a good idea for a school to sign up with one account.
Strand: Reading
Suggestions for use: This resource can be used on the IWB, by children individually, in pairs or groups. We've used it in listening stations in our Literacy Hour to great effect. The children can read the stories themselves or listen and read along. It's free to sign up and might be a good idea for a school to sign up with one account.
Strand: Reading
Suggestions for use: This resource can be used on the IWB, by children individually, in pairs or groups. We've used it in listening stations in our Literacy Hour to great effect. The children can read the stories themselves or listen and read along. It's free to sign up and might be a good idea for a school to sign up with one account.
https://www.scoilnet.ie/uploads/resources/12113/11748.docx
Added:9 Jun 2014
Contributor: rdonald
Resource type: Lesson Plan
The objective of the lesson is to create a set of quizzes based on a class novel, using Scratch.
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English5-6
How it maps to the curriculum
- 5-6
- English
Strand: Reading
Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:
This resource should enable a child to:
- appreciate issues in fiction
- continue to share response to an ever-increasing variety of texts with the wider community of readers
https://www.scoilnet.ie/uploads/resources/11739/11370.pdf
Added:22 Apr 2014
Contributor: Scoilnet
Resource type: Guide/Notes
Find out what inspires Brian Keaney to write and what he read as a kid in this short collection of interesting questions.
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English5-6
How it maps to the curriculum
- 5-6
- English
Strand: Reading
Suggestions for use: Use as a stimulus to model the type of interview questions a pupil might ask an author or as the basis for talk and discussion or a reading comprehension. Print and distribute between groups or display on an IWB.
